Elara realizes she can't just be a passive repository. She must become an author. Not to live these stories, but to give them a proper ending within herself. Inspired by the library, she begins to consciously "write" them down. Not on paper, but in her mind. She takes each unwritten future—the sailor, the father, the husband, the artist Leo might have been—and crafts a short, perfect, final chapter for each. She gives the boat a stormy, heroic end. She lets the fictional child grow up and move away. She allows the marriage to end in a bittersweet, mutual understanding. She completes the arcs
